The Washington bee., 1887-12-31
SCATTERED NOTES,
For The WASHINGTON BEE
BY
MAGNUS L. ROBINSON
West End December 81 lSS

The height of the human body,
is generally ten times the length of
the face. When the arms are ex-
tenued horizontally; the distanre
between the points Of the middle
finger, equals the length of the
whole body. The arm is four times
the length Of the face. The hand
is the length of the face. The
length of tie sole is a sixth part Of
the height of the body. Six time
the thickness of the hand, equal
that of the whole body.
A curious study has been made
by Dr.. Peraccha. IF he differences
between criminals an.l law abiding
citizens, as exibEed by their walk
The following are the distinguish
ing characteristics which his obSer
vations have enabled him to form
ulate: 1st. Thieves ln those who
are predisposed to appropriate the
property of others there Is IA pro-
nounced widening of the base sup
port togather with very long step.
End. ASsasSins.- In those wlO
have murder i'll their hearts, the
base of support is not as wide as it
is in thieves, since the angle formed
by axis of the foot with the me-
dian line is less obtuse, but the sim
istlality betrayed by their foot
prints is very masked.
St. Jude was shot to death. st.
Simeon Zealot was conceived in
Persia. st. Matthias Was first ston
ed and then behealed. St. Lake,
was hanged upon an olive tree in
Greece. st. James the great, was
beheaded at Jerusalem. St. Paul
was beheaded in Rome by the ty.
rant Nero. st. BarnaDas was ston
ed to death by the j. VS. at Salania.
st. Bartholomew was tiayed alive
by the command of a barbarous
king. st. Phillip was hanged up a
galnst a pillar at Heirapolis. a city
of Phrygia. St. Thomas was run
through the body witha lance at
Caromandel, in the East Indie ST
Andrews Was bound to cross,
whence he preached unto the peo-
pie until he expired. ST. Matthew
: is supposed to have suffered mar
t, rdom, or was slain with a sword,
at the city OF Ethiopias, in Egypt.
st. James the Less, Wa thrown
from pinnacle or wing of the
temple and hen beaten to death
with a fuller's club.
Ex Senator Bruce is engaged in
lecturing upon that knotty ques-
tion: The Negro problem. The dis
tinguished Senator believes 4" that
the day is not far distant when the
negro problem would be solved"
and that the salvation of the Ne
gro is in the republican party. 1
am glad to learn that the Negroes
Social Millennium Is 80 near at hand
but the hand that rocks the cradle
is the hand that rocks the world,
the problem can only be solved by
the colored women of Americ /.
The future of the Afro American
lies in the path, bea en- down by
the foot prints of the Afro Amer
lean women!
To day is the last light of 1887.
| Tomorrow uSherS in 1888, o! BEE
then ring out the weekly, ring i'm
the new. The Daily BEE for 'S8,
the only colored daily, published
in the world.
The editor of the Bee Chase's the
old year out to day. Next year
promises to be one of great nom.
ent and the ever alert Bee will he
equal to the emergency, a regular
Bee Chase in the battle for human
rights. and just recognition due the
Afro American.
The city of Alexandria, loses one
of its most valued citizens by the
death of Hon. John B. Smoot. He
was an upright, entetprising, and
exemplary christian gentleman
Though a democrat politics, be
was popular amonglthe colored cit
izens of the ancient. city, who rev
ere his memory second to none in
Alexandria. AS Mayor, he proved
himself the fairest in his trying Off
ce that ever held the position. The
official mantle of the late mayor
ought to fall upon the editor of the
Alexandra Daily City Item. Mr.
D. w. Whitina, present council